This quote is emblazoned on a huge arching sign at Fort Benning's Airborne School. However, it was explained to me that balloons ( December 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers) were what he was referring to. Same concept though.K.Mooneyham wrote:TAM, the Founding Fathers were indeed some highly intelligent folks who had a knack for looking to the future, even if they couldn't understand technologically how a thing could be done. I recently came across this quote in a book about WWII paratroopers...
Where is the Prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds may not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?---Benjamin Franklin
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- Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:57 pm
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